Defenition:

• Being able to maintain a sense of order in ones life.
• There is balance of mind, body, spirt, etc.
• mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgment, etc.

Discussion:
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Quotables:
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• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving". -Albert Einstein
  • This quote is very true because when things fall out of the loop its seems hard to move on at all from that but in order to stay with the flow of life you have to keep moving and you can't give up.
• "“Problems arise in that one has to find a **balance** between what people need from you and what you need for yourself” -Jessye Norman
  • This quote explains the balance between conformity and non-conformity, something that we have mentioned many times this year. Norman means to say that while we all feel the need to be liked, we must not let that overshadow the need to be an individual.
• “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.-Eupripides
  • This quote explains the balance in ones self. If one doesn’t balance there power he can go crazy but with balance one becomes wise. So keeping balance can create a great man.
• "The whole imposing edifice of modern medicineis like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance" - Prince of Wales Charles
  • This quote by Prince Charles could be pointing at a few different topics. The topic at hand may be surrounding the investments into fertility, where parents can soon choose their baby’s characteristics, which is definitely off balance of how nature should be. Also, people spend millions of dollars to have their stomachs stapled and faces changed, but that does not fix peoples’ lifestyles. Whichever aspect of modern medicine Prince Charles is referring to, it’s probable that it is off balance with the natural order of things.
• "Evermore in the world is this marvelous **balance** of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  This quote is perfect for balance because it's talking about the balance of the world. It is saying that for every beautiful person there is someone just as equally ugly, and that may not even pertain to looks. It says for every magnificent person there is someone that is as low as a rat. The world revolves around balance and sustaining it.
• “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

In order to have happiness there has to be balance in ones life. One can not simply be happy because of one virtue but many balanced together.

• Man always travels along precipices. His
  truest obligation is to keep his balance. - Pope John Paul II
  • I think that often the virtue of balance is conceived in a passive light, as if it were something executed through meditation, or found in between the grass in a field on a summer day. In actuality, Balance is demanding, because aceheiving it requires that you examine yourself and actively try and change one way or another. Balance is the essence of living, the reason for existence.

• Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.- Robert Fulgulm
  • This quote emphasizes who important balance is in life. We should do everything in moderation to ensure we do our best at everything
• “There’s no secret to **balance**. You just have to feel the waves” - Frank Herbert
  • This quote talks about how balance is not really archived when trying to be. The balance must be dealt with when a person is faced with it.
• Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just **balance** between what he can acquire and what he can use.” -Peter Mere Latham
  • This is a very good quote to use for balance because it refers the reader to the balance between good and evil within themselves, and the need to balance that.

• "I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." - Oprah Winfrey
  • This quote shows that everyone must balance their lives and choose their priorities. Balance is deciding what is most important and not letting all the little things overwhelm you.

• "There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power, not organized rivalries, but an organized peace." ~Woodrow T. Wilson
  • This quote not only refers to the balance of power necessary for a government to function properly, but this quote also emphasizes the importance of balance between communities and between people in general.
• “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner **balance** and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” -Albert Einstein
  • Einstein is saying that in order to have balance in our life than we must have moral values. Without oral values balance can not exist. Haveing balance leads to haveing inner peace and a worthwhile existence.
• “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”-Thomas Merton
  
  This quote is a representation of how to achieve happiness through balance. In which,order, rhythm, and harmony deal with balance, because without balance thatn order, rhythm, and harmony are not going to help to obtain with happiness. Therefore, in order to achieve happiness one needs order, rhythm, and harmony; but in order to achieve those there has to be balance.
• So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
This quote demonstrates the balance of people and the world around them. Balance is all about unity, and according to this quote it’s the persons spiritual balance with nature in a manner that is rather harmonious.

• " Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being” -Orison Swett Marden
  • Everyone has to have a perfect balance in their lives of work, love and play in order for their life to be even, because too much of one thing is never a good thing.

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“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”"

• This quote explains that you can't have too much of one thing in your life; it has to be balanced. Even though you want a lot of good in your life, you have to have the bad as well because then you would not know the meaning of happiness.
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  “Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” Robert Fulghum
• This quote shows that you cannot just do one thing in life. To live a fullfilled and happy life, one must do many different things, in and out of their comfort zones. Balance is living a life of many experiences and living each day to its fullest.
• Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to
  learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous
  activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives
  more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in
  modern lives is simplicity. ~Sogyal Rinpoche
• This quote by Sogyal Rinpoche involves a lot with balance. He is saying that, in life our goal is to find balance and the best way to find balance is through simplicity and living in simplicity. Sogyal is stating that we should not go through life out doing ourselves or making our lives stressful over hard activities. If we live simple than our lives will balance out and everything will fall in place.